The most impressive part of this rep is that his grip is extremely close! His triceps must be so strong. If you watch professional weightlifters, their grips are much wider than Martins. Pretty damn tremendous!

Powerlifters will bring their grip in to shoulder width similar to a push up. You retract the lats, bring the elbows towards the body more and it give you more power. You might see other guys who are trying to body build take a wider grip and bring their elbows out like a "T" from their body. This puts more pressure on the shoulder and has less useful applicability to Mike's move off the line (he would have his hands closer to when delivering a blow to the offensive lineman). All that said, this was an impressive lift by Mike.

RVB actually addressed that in a recent interview. He said something about trying the flow this past year before the divots up top got too big (to the point where he'd have a Dana Holgorsen "skullet"). He's probably moving to the next level (so to speak) with his 'do.

You might be right, but that may just be how he's accustomed to benching. A lot of football players and football weight training focus on pushing motions utilizing more of the triceps to simulate how you'd keep your elbows inside to block or bull-rush.

Lamarr Woodley trains there, as do many other Michigan Alumni NFLers who didn't actually train with Barwis as undergrads. I think he established a relationship with a lot of the alums while he worked at Michigan and word of mouth goes a long way. You want to train with someone you're comfortable with.

Plus, a lot of the alums are from the state, so they can work out there while they visit family, etc. I think it'll definitely continue.

I'm about 250, lifting two of me just sounds insane. There are good odds that he breaks the combine rep record. Isnt Richardson from 'Bama a freak of nature too? it'd be interesting to see these two benching.